Bucharest, April 14, 2025 Photo: basilica.ro Around 13,000 pilgrims and numerous clergy from Bucharest and Ilfov filled the streets of Bucharest on Saturday for the annual procession in honor of the great feast of Palm Sunday. The pilgrimage began in the capital with the celebration of Vespers at the Radu Vodă Monastery. At the…
Tallinn, April 11, 2025 Pükhtitsa Monastery. Photo: puhtitsa.ee Representatives of the Estonian Orthodox Christian Church and the Holy Dormition-Pükhtitsa Monastery submitted an official appeal to the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) yesterday, calling for a response to the religious persecution being carried out by the state. Estonian Parliament adopted amendments to the…
Mt. Athos, April 14, 2025 Photo: romfea.gr Zographou, the Bulgarian-tradition monastery on Mt. Athos, has elected its new abbot. The former abbot, Schema-Archimandrite Ambrose, who had lived and labored on the Holy Mountain since 1981 and served as abbot since 1997, reposed in the Lord on Abbot of Zographou, Bulgarian Athonite monastery, reposes in…
Photo: troitskiy-hram.moseparh.ru Now in the morning as He returned into the city, He hungered. And when He saw a fig tree in the way, He came to it, and found nothing thereon, but leaves only, and said unto it, Let no fruit grow on thee henceforward for ever. And presently the fig tree withered away…
Photo: n-do.by [They] took branches of palm trees, and went forth to meet Him, and cried, Hosanna:Blessed is the King of Israel that cometh in the name of the Lord (Jn. 12:13). The holy Church commemorates this day the The Entry of the Lord into Jerusalem—Palm Sunday”We magnify Thee, O Christ the Giver of…
